Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drink; Pierre simultaneously forgets and anticipates his troubles by making love at large. His first serious affair is with Joanna Ryan, a simple country girl. Though their love is true, simple Joanna is not so simple as to tie up with the wandering circus boy. When she finds herself pregnant she marries a farmer, Elmer Croy, who loves her too much to mind premarital infidelity. Pierre travels on with his mother, gets a big-time job with Haines's Roman Circus as chariot rider, gladiator. In this capacity he fascinates Leah, a waning mistress of wealthy benefactors long deceased...
Theelin affects the female procreative apparatus. Two Parisians, Drs. Andre Girard and Georges Sandulesco, last week announced crystallization of two more female sex hormones with specific actions. Because these hormones came from the urine of pregnant mares, they were named equiline and hippuline...
When, at 16, she becomes pregnant, she steals 100 francs from the local post office and runs away to Bordeaux. There she miscarries the child, takes to prostitution as a starving bird takes to a cage. The captain of a tramp steamer gets her drunk, whisks her off with him to Venezuela. There he drops her; there, bit by bit, she begins to collect money to get back to her adored France...
...18th Century music. Little, bewigged Mozart sat on the Empress Maria Theresa's ample lap. Once he was permitted to watch Louis XV eat. But with all his genius he never found one large-hearted patron on whom he could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth for six years out of their union of nine. He went deeper & deeper in debt. Figaro earned him $200, Don Giovanni about $225. A grey-clad stranger knocked at his door one day, asked him to narrow his price for writing a Requiem March. The stranger turned...
Here General Wing's subordinate, engaged in the less important task of ironing a pair of pajamas, interposed a remark pregnant with all the cynicism of modern youth. "Oh, yeah", quoth the subordinate. His sickly smile quickly disappeared when Wing's glinting eye admonished...